A retired veterinarian has made the case that Britain’s iconic 13th-century B.C. Uffington White Horse is actually a depiction of a dog such as a wolfhound. Several sarcophagi smuggled out of Egypt 50 years ago are heading back after U.S. authorities seized them according to Egypt’s chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass. How many times can King […]

Is the world’s oldest leather shoe in danger from neglect? Found in a cave in Armenia in 2008, the 5,500-year-old footwear has yet to be fully studied and conserved. Its excavators worry that the leather will dry out, but the director of the Yerevan Museum, where it is kept, says there is no cause for […]